Dr. Phoebus Athanassiou

Position

Dr. Phoebus Athanassiou is Principal Legal Counsel with the Directorate General Legal Services of the European Central Bank (ECB).

Special interests

Dr. Athanassiou specialises in European Union, Greek and Cypriot financial law. He has published extensively on financial services, capital markets, securities regulation, and institutional issues of relevance to the ECB and Economic and Monetary Union. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of the ECB Legal Working Papers Series and of the International In-house Counsel Journal, and regularly acts as referee for a number of English language legal journals. In the course of his career in the Legal Services of the ECB he has covered a wide variety of topics, with an emphasis on the legal aspects of the implementation of the single monetary policy, the Eurosystem collateral framework, financial crisis-related work and more recently, payments and securities settlement.

Vita

Dr. Athanassiou holds law degrees from Queen Mary College, London (LL.B., 1998) and King’s College, London (LL.M. 1999) as well as a doctoral degree in law from King’s College, London (Ph.D. 2009). He joined the Legal Services of the ECB in 2004. Prior to joining the ECB, he was in private practice, with the Athens Law Firm of Tsibanoulis & Partners, inter alia acting as consultant to the Government of the Republic of Cyprus on the transposition of the acquis in the fields of securities, banking and insurance law.